Published: 11/11/2001 Updated: 10/10/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability in Postfix SMTP server prior to 20010228-pl07, when configured to email the postmaster when SMTP errors cause the session to terminate, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by generating a large number of SMTP errors, which forces the SMTP session log to grow too large.

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wietse venema postfix 2000-02-28
wietse venema postfix 1999-09-06
wietse venema postfix 1999-12-31

Wietse Venema reported he found a denial of service vulnerability in postfix The SMTP session log that postfix keeps for debugging purposes could grow to an unreasonable size This has been fixed in version 0019991231pl11-2 ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-093 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3544 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000439 http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2001:089 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-156.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100584160110303&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7568 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-093

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